Reaction products of an aldehyde and an aldehyde-reactable composition comprising the condensation product of a polyhalogenated compound and a triazine derivative



Patented May 26, 1953 REACTION PRODUCTS OF AN ALDEHYDE AND AN ALDEHYDE-REACTABLE COMPO- SITION COMPRISING THE CONDENSA- TION PRODUCT OF A POLYHALOGENATED COMPOUND AND A TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE .Jack T. Thurston, Old'GreenWich, Conn., assignor to American Cyanamid Company, New York, N Y., a corporation oi Maine No Drawing. Application May 10, 1951, Serial No. 225,682

Claims.

This invention relates to the production of new synthetic materials and more particularly to new resinous compositions which are especially suitable foruse in the plastics and coating arts. The invention specifically is concerned with compositions comprising a resinous material obtained by effecting reaction between ingredients comprising (1) an aldehyde (including polymeric aldehydes, hydroxyaldehydes and aldehyde-addition products) and (2-) a composition resulting from a condensation reaction between ingredients including (a) at least one triazine derivative represented by the general formula where R represent a member of the class consist ing of hydrogen and monovalent hydrocarbon radicals, more particularly alkyl, cycloalkyl, ar-

radical, more particularly an alkyl, cycloalkyl,

allzyl, aryl and alkaryl radicals, and M represents an alkali metal (e. g., sodium, potassium, etc.) and (b) a compound having at least two but not more than three halogen atoms (more particularly chlorine or bromine atoms) attached to a radical selected from the group consisting of polyvalent hydrocarbon and oxyhydrocarbon (including hydroxyhydrocarbon) radicals, each hal ogen being attached to a carbon atom in which all four valences are satisfied by single bonds.

- The present invention also includes Within its scope compositions comprising a resinous material obtained by effecting reaction between ingredients comprising (1) an aldehyde (including polymeric aldehydes, hy-droxyaldehydes, and aldehyde-addition products) and (2) a composition resulting from a condensation reaction between (a) a plurality of triazine derivatives one of which corresponds to Formula I and another of which is represented by the general formula II /R i where R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon aralkyl, aryl or alkaryl radical, and M represents an alkali metal and (b) a halogenated compound of the kind described under (b) in the first paragraph of this specification.

Illustrative examples of monovalent hydrocarbon radicals represented by R and R in the above formulas are methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, isopropyl, isobutyl, amyl, octyl, decyl, octadecyl, 2- ethylhexyl, phenyl, naphthyl, xenyl, cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, tolyl, xylyl, ethylphenyl, benzyl, phenylethyl, tolylethyl, phenylpropyl, etc. The radicals represented by R and in Formula II may be the same or different.

The aldehyde-reactable compositions used in practicing the present invention are more fully described and claimed in my copending application Serial No. 225,681, filed concurrently herewith.

It is an object of the present invention to prepare a new class of synthetic materials, more particularly resinous compositions, which have particular utility in the plastics and coating arts, e. g., as coating, laminating, adhesive, impregnating, casting and molding compositions, as well as in other applications. Other objects of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art as the description of the invention proceeds.

The present invention is based on my discovery that new and valuable materials for use in coating, molding and other applications can be prepared by effecting reaction between ingredients comprising (1) an aldehyde, including polymeric aldehydes, hydroxyaldehydes, and aldehyde-addition products (e. g., formaldehyde, paraformaldehyde, aldol, dimethylol urea, trimethylol urea, trimethylol melamine, etc), and (2) an aldehyde-reactable composition of the kind described briefly-in the first paragraph of this specification and more fully in my aforementioned copending application. Some of the condensation products of this invention are thermoplastic materials even at an advanced stage of condensation, while others are thermosetting bodies that convert under heat or under heat'and pressure to an insoluble and infusible state. The thermoplastic condensation products are of particular value as plasticizers for synthetic resins that have unsatisfactory plasticity or flow characteristics. The thermosetting or potentially thermosetting condensation products, alone or mixed with pigments, dyes, plasticizers, lubricants, curing agents, etc., maybe used, for example, in the production of molding compositions. The liquid intermediate condensation products of this invention may be concentrated or diluted further by the removal of or addition of volatile solvents to form liguid coating compositions or adjusted viscosity ate. e trati The li atlenver e ible or potentially heat-convertible resinous condensation products may be used in liquid state, for instance, as surface-coating materials, the production of paints, varnifl'iesilacquers, en: amels, etc., for general adhe'sji' ,ap plica' tionsfin producing laminated articles and 'f or numerous other purposes.

The aldehyde-reactable compositions, more particularly aldehyde-reactable polymers, which are used in practicing my invention are prepared by effecting reaction between ingredients including 1) a triazine derivative of the hind embracedby Formula I, or a mixture of such tria'zine' deriv atives, or a mixture containing such a tria zine derivative and a triazine derivative of the kind covered by Formula II, and (2) a polyhalogenated compound more particularly at dior trichlorinated or a diorv tribrominated. compound wherein. each halo en is attached to. a carbon atom in. which all four valences are. satisfied by. single bonds. The grouping, containing. the.haio.-. en, is further characterized by, being a hydrocarbon 01S- an oxyhydrocarbon radical. Included within, these. classes of radicalsare. the. acyclic hydrocarbon ra icals, acyclic oxyhydnocarbon radicals. and aromatic-substituted aliphatic. radi-. cals. which. latter theai-iphatic. portion. is either an acyclic. hydrocarbon, or. an acyclic oxyhydroe carbon. ladieali The reaction. is usually, C011. ducted under heat, preferably, below 150?: 0., in order. to inmimize side reactions. In. most cases, ho eact on sta ts. a bout 7018096.

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aldehyde, and thepolymer may be carried out in the presence of solvents or diluents, other natural or synthetic bodies (numerous examples of which hereafter are given) or while admixed with other materials which are reactable or nonreactable with the aldehyde reactant or with the polymer, e. g., urea, thiourea, cyanamide, dicyandiamide, phthalic di-aniide, acetamide, chlorinated acetamides, methyl ethyl ketone, etc.; aldehyde-reactable triazinyl compounds other than the linear polymers used in practicing the present by mixing all the reactants and effecting condensation therebetween under acid, alkaline, or neutral conditions or by various permutations of reactants. For example, I may effect partial reaction or condensation between the chosen aldehyde and the polymer, then add the modifying reactant, e. g. urea, melamine, etc., and effect further condensation. Or, I may first partially react urea, melamine, or other aldehydereactable modifying reactant with a molecular excess of an aldehyde under acid, alkaline, or neutral conditions, then add the polymer and effect further condensation. Or, I may separately partially react (1) urea, melamine, or other aldehyde-reactable modifying reactant and an aldehyde and (2) a polymer of the kind above described and an aldehyde, thereafter mixing the two products of partial reaction and effecting further reaction or condensation therebetween. The reactants of (1) and (2) initially may be partially condensed under acid, alkaline, or neutral conditions.

In producing these new condensation products, the choice of the aldehyde is dependent largely upon economic considerations and upon the particular properties desired in the finished product. I prefer to use as the aldehydic reactant formaldehyde or compounds engendering formaldehyde, e. g., paraformaldehyde, hexamethylene tetramine, etc. Illustrative examples of other aldehydes that may be employed are acetaldehyde,

propionaldehyde, butylaldehyde, heptaldehyde,

octaldehyde, methacrolein, crotonaldehyde, benzaldehyde, furfural, hydroxyaldehydes (e. g. a1- dol, glucose, glycollic aldehyde, glyceraldehyde, etc), mixtures thereof, or mixtures of formaldehyde (or compounds engendering formaldehyde) with such aldehydes. Illustrative examples of aldehyde-addition products that may be used instead of the aldehydes themselves are the monoand poly-(N-carbinol) derivatives, more particularly the monoand poly-methylol derivatives, of urea, thiourea and iminoureas, monoand poly-(N-carbinol) derivatives of amides of polycarboxylic acids, e. g., maleic, itaconic, fumaric, adipic, malonic, succinic, citric, phthalic, etc., monoand poly- (N-carbinol) derivatives of the aminotriazoles, of the aminodiazines, etc. Good results are obtained with aldehyde-addition products such as methylol urea, more particularly monoand (ii-methylol ureas, and a methylol melamine. Mixtures of aldehydes andaldehydeaddition products may be employed, e. g., mixtures of formaldehyde and methylol compounds such as dimethylol urea, trimethylol melamine, hexamethylol melamine, etc.

The ratio of the aldehyde reactant to the polymer may be varied over a wide range depending, for example, upon the number of aldehydereactable amino groups in the polymer and upon the properties desired in the finished product. The aldehyde is used in an amount suflicient to react with from one to all of the reactive amino groups in the polymer. Ordinarily the reactants are'employed in an amount corresponding to at'least one mole of the aldehyde for each mole of the polymer. I may use, for instance, from 0.1 to 2 moles of the aldehyde, e. g., formaldehyde, for each aldehydereactable recurring unit in the polymer.

When the aldehyde is available for reaction in the form of an alkylol derivative, more particularly a methylol derivative, e. g., dimethylol urea, trimethylol melamine, etc., amounts of such alkylol derivatives corresponding to or higher (e. g., from a few percent more to 15 or 20 times as much) than the relative amounts mentioned above with reference to the aldehyde may be used.

In order that those skilled in the art better may understand how the present invention may be carried into effect the following examples are given by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. All parts are by weight.

Example 1 A linear polymer is prepared from the clisodium salt of dithioammelide, the disodium salt of N,N-dibutyl dithioammelide and ,8,B'-dichloroethyl formal according to the technique of Example 1 of my copending application Serial No. 225,681, filed concurrently herewith.

' Parts Linear polyn'ier'of A a- 26.5 Aqueous formaldehyde (approximately 37% HCHO) 10.0

Into a reaction vessel equipped with a stirrer and a reflux condenser is placed the linear polymer dissolved in 100 parts of ethylene glycol monomethyl ether, and to this solution is added 3 parts of phosphoric acid solution (10% in butanoll. The mixture is refluxed for ten minutes and then cooled to about C., whereupon the aqueous formaldehyde is added. After refluxing for 45 minutes, water is azeotropically removed at atmospheric presssure. Ethylene glycol monomethyl ether is added during the distillation to replace that distilled. When the temperature reaches 120 C.,- the solution is concentrated' to 'asolids content greater than 50% under vacuum at C. The-solids content is determined by drying a tarred sample at C. for 2 hours. The resulting solution is adjusted to a concentration .of 50% solids by addition of ethylene glycol monomethyl ether to form a lacquer. The lacquer product provides good, hard, flexible films when cured ona tin panel for 30 minutes at C. In this example the ratio of formaldehyde to linear polymer is approximately 1.3 moles of the former for each recurring unit in the latter.

Example 2 A granular linear polymer is prepared according to Example of my copending application Serial No. 225,681, filed concurrently herewith. The starting materials for this polymer are the disodium salt of dithioammelide and lad-dichlorethyl ether.

Sixteen hundred and thirty-seven (1637) parts of the polymer of A above, 263 parts of-37% aqueous formaldehyde and 350 parts of water are placed in a reaction vessel, and the temperature of the resulting slurry is raised to about 90 C. After 4 hours at 90 C. with constant agitation at a pH of approximately 7.5, a creamy, custard-like slurry forms. This slurry is cooled and filtered. A granular solid is recovered. The yield is approximately 56% of the theoretical.

Example 3 Into a reaction vessel equipped with a reflux condenser, stirrer, and thermometer are placed 98 parts of dithioammelide, 48 parts of sodium hydroxide and 600 parts of water and the mixture is heated to 80 C. Eighty-five and eight-tenths (85.8) parts of dfl dichloroethyl ether is added slowly to the mixture While increasing the temperature to slow reflux. After 3 hours at reflux, a granular white solid precipitates. At this point, 5 parts of 37% aqueous formaldehyde is added. The granules grow in size until /3 hour after the formaldehyde has been added when a large, white slug of gummy resin forms. ditional hour at reflux, the liquid is decanted and. the glob of resin is cooled. On cooling it becomes quite brittle and is ground and washed. The resin is then dried for 24 hours at 50 C. in a hot air oven. The yield is 130 parts of granular solid. The pH of the solution is strongly alkaline throughout the reaction.

Example 4 One thousand and eighty (1080) parts of the linear polymer obtained in A of Example 2, 108 parts of paraformaldehyde, 5.9 parts or maleic anhydride, and 5.9 parts of :zinc stearate are mixed and ground in a ball mill. The powder prepared in this manner is then added to a pair of mixing rolls at an initial temperature of 75 C. on the front roll and 115 C. on the backroll. After 15 minutes the temperature of the front roll is raised to 115 C. After an additional minutes the temperature of both rolls is raised to 125 C. to shorten the rolling time. After minutes at this temperature, the material has stiffened appreciably and is taken off. The resin has turned a. light tan color just before removal from the rolls. The material after cooling is ground and ball-milled to give a fine, free-flowing powder.

The powder prepared in the preceding paragraph is molded under heat and pressure. Unfilled, molded test pieces of the material were evaluated in physical tests as follows:

Density 1.44 Volatile content (percent) 1 8.31 Water absorption (percent). 0.23 Mold shrinkage (mils per inch) 116.2 Flexural strength (:ns. i.) 10,000 Deflection (mils per inch)- 115 lmpact ski ball (ft. lbs. inch ).1 0.157 Hardness-Barcol 29 Heat distortion -deg. C 67 After an ad- Example 5 A polymer is prepared from fi,fl'-dichloroethyl formal and the disodium salt of dithioammelide according to the procedure of Example 7 of my copending application Serial No. 225,681, filed concurrently herewith. One hundred sixty-four and five tenths (164.5) parts of the polymer, 250 parts of butanol, 105.5 parts of 37% aqueous formaldehyde, 12.6 parts of melamine, and 1 part of phosphoric acid are placed in a reaction vessel. This mixture is heated to 138 C. and refluxed for hour. The butanol is then partially distilled off at 90 C. There is obtained 277 parts of a clear lacquer containing about 60% solids. The lacquer is soluble in ethylene glycol monomethyl ether and insoluble in xylene.

Example 6 A linear polymer is prepared from the disodium salt of dithioammelide and B, 8-dichloroethyl ether according to the procedure of Example 5 of my copending application Serial No. 225,681,

filed concurrently herewith. Five hundred and twenty-seven (527) parts of the linear polymer and 1050 parts of normal butanol are placed in a reaction vessel equipped with a stirrer and reflux condenser. The mixture is heated to reflux and 4.5 parts of phosphoric acid (10% in butanol) is added. Immediately afterward, 272 parts of 37% aqueous formaldehyde is added. After 10 minutes at reflux, the reaction mixture is distilled at a temperature of about C. under vacuum. After cooling there is present 552 parts of a syrupy lacquer having a solids content of about 77.5%.

It will be understood, of course, by those skilled in the art that my invention is not limited to the specific reactants nor to the specific conditions of reaction shown in the above-illustrative examples. For instance, the reaction may be effected at temperatures ranging from room temperature to the fusion or boiling temperature of the mixed reactants, the reaction proceeding more slowly at normal temperatures than at elevated temperatures in accordance with the general law of chemical reactions.

The curing of the thermosetting or potentially thermosetting resinous compositions of this invention may be accelerated by incorporating therein a curing agent (or a mixture of curing agents), for instance, a direct or active curing catalyst (e. g., phthalic acid, phthalic anhydride, maleic acid, maleic anhydride, succinic acid, citric acid, etc.), or a latent curing catalyst (e. g,, an ammonium salt of phosphoric acid, ammonium silicofiuoride, benzoyl phthalimide, etc.). Catalysts which are capable of intercondensing with the partial reaction product may be employed, for instance, curing reactants such as glycine, sulfam-ic acid, chloroacetone, chloracctyl urea, etc. The amount of curing catalyst, if used, may be varied as desired or as conditions may require, but ordinarily is within the range of 0.1 to 5 or 6 percent by weight of the thermosetting or potentially thermosetting resinous product.

Illustrative examples of modifying bodies that may be incorporated into the resinous compositions of this invention are melamine-aldehyde condensation products (e. g., melamine-formaldehyde condensation products), urea-aldehyde condensation products (e. g., urea-formaldehyde condensation products), urcc-melamine-aldehyde condensation products (e. g., urea-melamine-formaldehyde condensation products),

protein-aldehyde condensation products, aminodiazine-aldehyde condensation products, aminotriazole-aldehyde condensation products, anilinealdehyde condensation products, phenol-aldehyde condensation products, (e. g., phenol-formaldehyde condensation products), furfural condensation products, modified or unmodified, saturated or unsaturated polyhydric alcohol-polycarboxylic acid reaction products, ester gums, water-soluble cellulose derivatives, natural gums and resins such as shellac, rosin, etc., polyvinyl compounds such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl esters (e. g., polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl butyrate, etc.) polyvinyl others, including polyvinyl acetals, e. g., polyvinyl formal, polyvinyl butyral, etc.

Coating compositions maybe prepared from the thermosetting or potentiallythermosetting resinous compositions of this invention alone or admixed with melamine-formaldehyde resins, fatty oil or fatty oil acid-modified alkyd resins, or other film-forming materials commonly used in protective-coating compositions. For example, a coating composition may be made containing, for instance, from 15 to 95 parts by weight of a thermosetting or potentially thermosetting resin of the kind with which this invention is concerned and from 85 to parts of a fatty oil or fatty oil acid-modified alkyd resin, numerous examples of which are given, for example, in Moore Patent No. 2,218,474, issued October 15, 1940.

Dyes, pigments, driers, curing agents, plasticizers, mold lubricants, opacifiers and various fillers (e. g., wood fiour, glass fibers, asbestos, mineral wool, mica dust, powdered quartz, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, talc, china clay, carbon black, etc.) may be compounded by conventional practice with the resinous materials of my invention, as desired or as conditions may require, in order to provide a coating, molding or other composition best adapted to meet a particular service use. For additional and more detailed information concerning the modifying ingredients that may be employed in producing coating compositions from my new resins, reference is made to the aforementioned Moore patent.

The modified and unmodified resinous compositions of this invention have a wide variety of uses. For example, in addition to their use in the production of coating and molding compositions, they may be employed as modifiers of other natural and synthetic resins. Thus, they may be used to improve the plasticity or flow characteristics of thermosetting resins which have insufiicient or unsatisfactory plasticity during curing to an insoluble, infusible state, e. g., certain urea-formaldehyde resins where better flow during molding, Without decreasing the curing time, is desirable. The soluble resins of this invention also may be dissolved in solvents, e. g., benzene, toluene, xylene, amyl acetate, methyl ethyl ketone, butanol, etc., and used as laminating varnishes in the production of laminated articles wherein sheet materials, e. g., paper, cloth, sheet asbestos, glass cloth, etc., are coated or coated and impregnated with the resin solution, superimposed andthereafter united under heat and pressure. They also may be employed as an adhesive in makinglaminated plywood, as an impregnant of pulp performs from which molded articles thereafter are made by subjecting the impregnated perform to heat and pressure, as impregnants for electrical coils and for other electrically insulating applications, for bonding together abrasive grains in the production of resinbonded abrasive articles such, for instance, as grindstones, sand papers, etc., in the manufacture of electrical resistors, etc. They also may be used for treating textile materials (e. g., cotton, linen, rayon and other cellulose containing textiles, wool, silk and other natural or synthetic proteinaceous textiles, including nylon and textiles derived from casein, soyabeans, etc.), in filament, thread, yarn, fabric (woven or felted) or other form, in order to improve the properties of such textile materials, e. g., to increase the stiffness, to increase the service life, or otherwise to enhance the properties of the treated materials and to make them more useful or serviceable to the ultimate user. They also may be employed for treatingleather in order to improve its appearance and physical properties.

I claim:

1. A composition comprising a resinous material obtained hy effecting reaction between ingredients including (1) an aldehyde and (2) a polymeric composition resulting from a condensation reaction between ingredients including (a) a triazine derivative represented by the general formula where R represents a member of the class consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, aryl' and alkaryl radicals and M represents an alkali metal and (b) a compound containing at least two but not more than three halogen atoms selected from the class consisting of chlorine and bromine atoms and which are attached to a radical selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbon and oxyhydrocarbon radicals, each halogen being attached to a carbon atom in which all four valences are satisfied by single bonds.

2. A composition according to claim 1 in which the aldehyde is formaldehyde.

3. A composition according to claim 1 in which the halogenated compound is {3,fiF-dichloroethyl ether.

4. A composition according to claim 1 in which the halogenated compound is ,8,[3-dichloroethyl formal.

5. A composition according to claim 1 in which R represents hydrogen.

6. A heat-curable resinous composition comprising a heat-convertible product obtained by effecting partial reaction between ingredients comprising (1) formaldehyde and (2) a polymeric material resulting from a condensation reaction between ingredients including (a) at least one triazine derivative having the general formula where R represents a member ofthe class consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl,

aryl-and alkaryl radicals and M represents an alkali metal and (b) a compound having at least two but not more than three halogen atoms selected from the class consisting of chlorine and bromine atoms and which are attached to a radical selected from the group consistingof hydrocarbon and oxyhydrocarbon radicals, each halogen being attached to a carbon atom in which all four valences are satisfied by a single bond.

7. A product comprising the cured composition of claim 5 in an infusible, insoluble state.

8. A composition comprising the reaction prodnot of (1) formaldehyde with (2 a linear polymer resulting from a condensation reaction be tween ,e, 3'-dichloroethyl ether and the disodium salt of dithioammelide.

9. A composition comprising the reaction product of 1) formaldehyde with (2) a linear polymer resulting from a condensation reaction between ,B,fi'-dichloroethyl formal and the disodium salt of dithioammelide.

10. A method of preparing new resinous materials which comprises effecting reaction between ingredients comprising (1) an aldehyde and (2) a polymer resulting from a condensation reaction between ingredients including (a) a triazine derivative represented by the general formula Where R represents a member ofthe class consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, aryl, and alkaryl radicals and M represents an alkali metal and (b) a compound containing at least 2 but not more than 3 halogen atoms selected from the class consisting of chlorine and bromine atoms and which are attached to a radical selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbon and oxyhydroca-rbon radicals, each halogen being attached to a carbon atom in which all four valences are satisfied by single bonds.

JACK T. THURSTON.

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1. A COMPOSITION COMPRISING A RESINOUS MATERIAL OBTAINED BY EFFECTING REACTION BETWEEN INGREDIENTS INCLUDING (1) AN ALDEHYDE AND (2) A POLYMERIC COMPOSTION RESULTING FROM A CONDENSATION REACTION BETWEEN INGREDIENTS INCLUDING (A) A TRIAZINE DERIVATIVE REPRESENTED BY THE GENERAL FORMULA 